Google touts its Javascript engine version 8, among other things, as setting new speed records for its Chrome browser. Linux Magazine found during a benchmark test that the next Firefox generation can keep up with it.

Web scraping is a clever idea, but extracting data from a Web page manually can be a real chore. The new OutWit extension for Firefox provides a solution to this problem. Better yet, it allows you to save and export the scrapped data, which makes it a great research tool.

Public Internet access is often protected by restrictive firewalls, and you have no chance of running SSH. However, HTTPS over port 443 is typically permitted. Ajaxterm lets mobile users login to their home servers.